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I bought a moog studio 3 and have 0 regrets. Used my iPad for music for years but nothing can replace these moog knobs and switches. Like you say, we can love multiple things. Great video.
With hardware you own something tangible, if you are software based you are only licensed to use the software as long as the publisher allows which is subject to change. 30 years from now you can still have the gear and it will be classic and worth much more potentially. Show me a 30 year app that has full functionality ...
I have acquired a handful of small hardware devices and a couple of midi controllers but for the last 3 years I have almost entirely used the iPad completely on its own. That may change as I’m not ideologically committed to that…it just seems to work for me. I’m now over 8 years as an iPad based musician 😊
I found out 5 years back that hardware has become affordable. I've loved electronic music since the 80's as a teenager. I never even bothered to try and get hardware as it was obviously out of reach due to price. It's taken me 5 years but now have a decent little set up. Friends told me to not Bother and get software . I get there point after using Logic Pro X and the Moog Synth apps given away for free during lockdown . But just like an acoustic instrument it's somehow more fun . I find myself losing whole days to working on the drums. I think hardware is easier to get obsessed with and put the time in to get the best out of the instrument . But I have just bought the Moog Mariana for £29.99. in contrast I waited for a year for a used Microfreak then a few months later the Minifreak came out. Great video and definitely subscribing .
i’m with you here absolutely … exactly my experience .. i started using ipad only for making music deep in 2010 (with first release og nanostudio 1) and even through recent two years i’m using mostly elektron gear, iOS will always stay in my heart and NS2 is still my weapon of choice for full blown ITB production.. I would say - just combine everything what inspires you, no matter what other people say ;)
Knob twisting and touch screen interfaces both have their place. I think that the secret is to find the points where they meet. 850 videos....wow! Keep them coming Jakob.
I bought the Moog Sound Studio 3 partly after seeing your video where the guy from Moog tries to persuade you about patch cables! It’s great, and I have it set up as a nice hybrid system with the iPad, sometimes using MiRack to send a couple of channels of CV out to the Moogs for modulation or whatever. I like the Moogs for the same reason you give in this video: the tactile nature of the knobs, switches and patch cabling. It’s not one or the other, both together is wonderful!
Excellent vi and many thanks Haq! There’s one more thing I like about a hardware synth… it’s limited. The synth is dedicated to doing its thing and while it reins you in a bit, that can be very good for your creative process. I open my iPad and I have tens of thousands of sounds available. It’s like going to a great diner where the menu has everything! When I sit down with my Minilogue, I know what I can and can’t do and sometimes that limitation leads to very good results. It’s a subject that I’d love to see you address again. …and speaking of ‘again’, many thanks!
I have so many synths and fx on my iPad I have lost track… I bought a moog grandmother couple of years ago and honestly it’s something I use on almost every track, what’s also interesting is that it’s relatively straightforward but I can pull new and different sounds out of it all the time. I think it’s dangerous to get too many of any instruments real or virtual as you end up wasting money and don’t ever get good at one thing.
I like hardware because I love getting lost in a single purpose experience with knobs, same as Jakob. That being said, I tend to buy hardware that has high level of programmability, so that the singe purpose experience is actually quite deep, which actually undermines the previous reason. I don’t know why, can’t help it, but I am just only attracted to hardware when it has sufficiently deep programming options. My most favorite box is the Deluge which is basically a hardware DAW the size of an iPad.
Been a fan since the beginning for the same reason. To learn, love, and laugh. I accidentally stumbled upon your channel researching iOS music apps almost a decade ago and I dug the style in which you delivered information and usually agree with you. You helped me not be so much of a dick with my internet presence and my ratings. I have learned so much about music production, synths, apps, Apple, developers, etc. keep up the great hilarious content coming. Oh it is kind of a bummer that your English has gotten way way better. Your broken English videos were some of my favorites!?!
I have owned dozens of analog and digital synths and dozens of drum machines and samplers over the years. I loved them all! And I sold them all. I now only use my iPads and my desktop computer for all those tasks. I’m getting tons of work done because now I have less distractions with all that equipment.
Great analysis as always! I kind of gave up on programming cc-messages because I always forget which knob does what. But thanks to you I’ve gotten a lot of use of my iPad as well with coming up whith ideas and even whole songs.
British Hippie in the back still giggling here because the Swedish Sausage said "knob." 😂 I just love making music. I don't care what with - it's just whatever inspires you at the time. For me, I'm a small person with a small space to make music in and I'm interested in small things that make big sounds. I'm keen to try small synths, pedals, controllers, drum machines - whatever I can use alongside the iPad and my desktop - it's all the same to me, knobby or knobless.
I have a gear setup and an in-the-box setup, and I use them for completely different things. The latter is where I produce all my songs, while the former is for inspiration. I love buttons and knobs, but I hate recording audio from hardware! It’s fun and inspiring to play with hardware synths, but when it comes to making a track, I just have to have the control and flexibility of being all in the box. Of course, I recognize that’s just me… I know some people are the exact opposite, and if you enjoy making music that way, that’s great!
I mostly feel the same. I’m thinking of getting back into the korg volcas again bc they sink so easily which makes it super fun for jamming. And the parameter locks make knob twisting fun.
I must say, your videos and style of it are so great and fun. Your humor makes me smile so many time . I am not smiling much in my life but mostly your videos even get me out of thoughts holes :) Thank you for all your very informative and usefull videos. I agree with you.. The mix of all (Hardware and Software) in this case even with more devises is making it flexible and great. Keep on going "yeah good finger good. ahahah. " :D
Fascinating topic. I first got into iOS music production out of necessity because I had very little spare time or space to devote to setting up or housing physical gear. It was life changing for me to be able to make music while commuting to work. But over time, it is true that the desire to break ‘out of the box’ I’d so happily placed my music into began to bother me. I realised that I wasn’t really a guy having fun playing instruments to record music, I was a guy editing midi to build something that sounded like a performance - and that is something altogether different.
Two reasons, one of which you raised early on- it’s just so much better playing with real knobs and buttons and sliders. The other is one I seldom see mentioned, but which I notice every time I try returning to iOS- soft synths are just so damned complicated. There are one or two iOS synths that present the entire control interface at a glance, but most have multiple interfaces with a lot of menu-diving and really complex control routing. I have several hundred hp of modular now, and everything I do with that is far far simpler (and quicker!) than trying to tease a specific tone out of SynthMaster, or WoodSynth, or BLEASS Alpha, etc etc. In three words- Hardware Is Easier!
Really great video Jakob! Fully agree with this. I also really love 1:1 hardware and software experiences, there’s a lot of premapped options on mac and pc like keylab and komplete kontrol, but on iPad it feels like it’s just nanokey for gadget
Great video. I take advantage of the software synths but I do have 2 hardware, one analogue, one digital. The analogue machine I really enjoy the knob-per-function simplicity, but with the downside of each patch being for one instance only (short of taking photos of the positions etc). The digital synth only the other hand has had me baffled for about 40 years now, partly due to the menu diving, and partly because I still can't comprehend phase distortion in any meaningful way🤣. But as someone more into music writing than patch creation having software synths with infinite memory slots means I can focus on what I want to do rather than get bogged down in the stuff I'm less interested in.
Great points. I've gotten to the point of using a hardware keyboard (Yamaha MX88) and the software in the box (usually in Logic). I also have a KeyLab keyboard controller, and it is already mapped to their software, which is a big plus... but it's still not the same as knob turning on an actual analog synth. That said, I don't care if a synth is analog or digital. I prefer digital for the convenience of easy patch memory.
The iPad Pro M4 is just a fallback device for me when I travel for business. MPCs and hardware is what I primarily use because the journey is part of the joy of making music. That journey is less captivating on an iPad. It’s not about what others outside yourself feels. It’s about what you think and what you can do with the tools you choose.
I love concept of Volca Modular (two of them) talking with Moog WERKSTATT and electronic components thru breadboard in between. There are also instruments like model:Cycles that have unique workflow with all those knobs n buttons... not so easy with soft synths vs midi controllers. But, after all, I am probably just love how it look on my desk :)
For me I am a spacey ambient head. I want both Keys and knobs, but I also want those lush pads, arps and sequences. I could sequence everything in a Daw or a tracker over midi or I could go all hands on with the sequencer parts in both the soft synths and the hard synths and record that live, for me it is the choice of variation and sound, one doesn’t exclude the other and I really don’t dig that analog vs digital vs VA vs VST/synth app discussion. If it sounds great and you can be creative it really doesn’t matter the source, could be an old 8-bit computer with midi and a sampler as long as you are productive.
Just sold off my Volcas and I'm all software and midi controllers right now, but I sure feel this. At some point I'll probably decide to make room for some hardware again.
I used to do everything in the box, then several of the things I was using were no longer supported, or I had to buy (seemed more like rent) a new license. My operating system stopped supporting what I was using. On top of all that, mapping sucked! I switched to hardware. I have more fun now. As for the sound, agree 💯 with you. Analog, digital, or VST modeling, I do not care what you use. If it sounds good to you, then use it. If the iPad stuff gets easier to implement, I would do a hybrid setup in a second. Thinking of trying with my old Mac mini, and getting like a 10" monitor, a track ball and one of those mini thumb apha numeric Bluetooth things.
Thanks Jakob! Good exposé! :) I like to use the iPad for fiddling around with sounds and music. Many apps sound really really good. And I cannot afford any HW synths. But maybe that will change at some point, who knows. But yes, on the other hand, I really really crave to use a HW synth or a few more. For all the reasons you said (physical knobs and keyboards, dedicated HW, different sound). But also because I believe the “lucky accidents” and artifacts are different, and I want to use them. Artifacts are a big part of my creative process … and sometimes they sound really really good, especially on analog stuff (because the harmonics of analog artifacts tend to be “musical”). One more thing: my old iPad kept forgetting its AUv3 database regularly, ever since iOS 14, I believe. You heard about the problem. This prevented me from making music for a very long time, until I got a new iPad recently. This can of course also happen with HW synths. But I believe that I would have a bit more control over fixing or continuing to use partially broken HW. On the other hand, my other dream is that a good combination of an open source system with an app store will still become available some day on a tablet device. I have reason to believe that this is possible, albeit difficult to take all the steps to get there. The promise of such a system is that people can fix their own stuff again, at least the system parts.
I have dozens of iPad synths, effects, and other music creation apps. I also have 5 physical synths, a drum machine, and a sizable modular rig. The physical tends to get more use just because of the immediacy. I do use AUM and iPad for ALL effects. On my analog mixer I have 4 mono sends to a focusrite interface plugged into the iPad. AUM then provides 4 channels of effect chains back to 2 stereo returns to the mixer.
Both have their place different workflows add creativity I love what I can do with Ipad fed into my Roland Sp Mk 2 then feed the sound into my mutator filter and it becomes part of my external rig Best of both worlds
I used to own rooms full of hardware… I got sick of it and money is an issue … and space… I wouldn’t bother with electronics at all these days except for the iPad bought me back … I play acoustic/electric guitars normally
I love my iPad and will never let go of it. I do basically all my production within it and probably will continue to do so. But I’m working towards my dream setup now which is an iPad+OP-1 and an 0coast/Strega combo. Mostly just for jamming and fun but I’m sure they’ll both make their way into some tracks. Both is best.
in the not too distant future, the surface of the ipad will extrude between your fingers creating 3d buttons, sliders and knobs that will be electromagnetically modulated to your touch. in this way the tactile sensation will be rendered 100% with the benefit of a single device equipped with a surface film that continuously modulates its shape in 3 dimensions between your fingers.
I’m all iOS these days after having all hardware but recently I got a lofi 12 love the sound, a volca sample 2 love the sound, a pocket operator ko 33 but they all small and portable. I just think some lofi sounds good in hardware, and the tactile feel is nice sometimes also the limitations. cause with iOS I have so many apps now, to many options not a bad thing . but I like the hardware limitations sometimes.
People who have money either want to show that they have it, or just feel like they have it. It becomes less about how it actually sounds. And once they spend that money, you can guarantee they are going to take the opinion that the gear they bought makes sounds that can't be reproduced by something cheap. It's not a greed thing or an ego thing necessarily. People lose track and it becomes more about the tool than the work to be done.
to any new or old musician: just test, select and then use whatever suits you! hardware.. software.. that is not important. the most important is to use what will give you the opportunity to make music you love ❤
I actually like also dedicated midi controllers . Eg from Soundforce I have a midi minimoog a sfc60 Juno and from Korg the midi ms20.... It a nice compromise I think
The dedicated midi controllers look great but I can't bring myself to spend $300+ USD for each one (sometimes I am too cheap). I really like the Novation LaunchControl XL. I connect it to my iPad via bluetooth using the CME WIDI UHost. I ordered a pack of custom overlays that I use for different soft synths. It definitely takes some time to think about how to arrange, group, and assign the knobs, buttons, and faders, but I find that the process helps me to understand the capabilities of the soft synth too.
I think it depends on several things. The music you make. Who you make it for. And the confidence you have in yourself. I was lucky enough to get a recording studio built at a very young age by Sony. Then, as I was always on tour, I made it profitable by running it like a pro studio. It was necessary to answer the demand of the prods. 20 years later I had 35 guitars, more than 20 Synths (all vintage), 2 acoustic pianos, 3 electric pianos, more than 200 effect racks... A pro studio... At home I just had a digital Mackie and a Protools. I was going to the studio only for soccer games and weekends with friends. When the iPad came out, it was great. I could compose on tour,... When the 2nd one came out, I had my head full of producing bands so I sold everything. 5 iPads and that's it. Today 2 and that's it. Not even a headphone. The iPad is my Auratone. I like to destroy sounds...that's all I spend my time on The only instruments I don't destroy are the classical ones and for them I don't need Synthetizers. Just a big sound bank. Why did I talk about self-confidence? I often mix with Japanese DJs. They come with a lot of gear and I just have my iPad. Before playing, they usually don't talk to me... What's this crap... You have to assume. Well, in 100% of the cases, they ask me to do selfies with them after the show... It amuses me, but I'm 54 years old, I have no desire to be part of the music business and I'm lucky to have reached the dreams of my youth. My dream is the same little wooden house I have in Bangkok, but on an island. 2 big screen iPads, 2 genelec and a master keyboard. Nothing more, except some guitars... Because a guitar is not the same as a Synth....
@@CatFish107 I love to play drum but unfortunately I live in a slum with home in wood, so, even if all my neighbors... There is place close to where I live where I can play drum when I want... But yes, If one day I have my home in wood in an island, on a beach, a drum would be awesome... But you know, I totally change my way of living.. I have no more dream, I live the instant and never want something... I have 2 t shirts, 1 pant, my 2 iPads, my guitar and that's all. I am an empty boat that means that when you have nothing, nobody can "catch" you". This is how I am finally found the way of the happiness. To live I beef $70 per month. When I have more I share it with the Tha I people of my soi and all the children. 🙏
Aw, no I don’t. I usually listen to music on either physical mediums or use services where I can buy music directly from artists and download into my own apps. I don’t use Spotify, Apple Music or anything like that. 😅
absolutely NOTHING nothing can replace knobs and switches... with a touch display you always have to look what your finger hits... and: you don't feel anything. All this inhibits making music...
I have a Micro freak, but bought the Minifreak V (bundled with the whole V Collection). I have a few hardware devices because I like the way they look. The Microfreak is like beautiful art.
Of course the worst part is having to explain yourself over and over. I use hardware but only to control the apps on my iPad. It is so much easier to grab a physical knob or slider than hope to hit the right place on my screen. At least for my big fat bass player fingers. But,…..if a dedicated iPad user wanted to try out a hardware synth, do you have any recommendations on a reasonably cheap starter synth. Asking for a friend of course.
I got into hardware with a Deepmind 12 and it’s a great midi controller for IOS and PC VST’S as well and using both is “great sounding”to me but I think getting too many items or products distracts too much time away from concentration on one item or setup
You’ll remember Jakob… back in the day…😊 Back in the day - oh let’s say a scary sounding 23 years ago - anyone starting out had roughly ZERO chance of owning a great analog synth. But, we had Rebirth and VAZ and maybe some uhhhh virtual analog synths. Made a great many songs on these setups and laughed at those old fogies and their “real” gear. Well, let me tell you. I woke up sometime this year and realized actual affordable analog synths had fallen from the sky. I bought about three of them (exactly three of them) and… it’s amazing. I’m amazed. Everything I do on them just sounds so big and nice. To me the sonic differences are pretty big. I’m in love. I’ve married my synths and planned my future accordingly. Sorry not sorry.
Here’s why i mostly buy hardware - i have a bass from 1994 that still works, how much software did you get in 1994 that still works? Also, having physical controls right in front of you for a real synth makes workflow really fast imho
Turning a knob and feeling the control could be more gratifying than using the touch screen Midi controllers can never do justice to depict knobs on the soft synth. But then it’s one’s priority. The iPad does an amazing job to recreate synths today Then again the feel of an actual synth with real control is truly amazing too This debate may never end So enjoy with what you have 😂😂
Well I think most of the people pursuing analog synths from long ago, need to understand that when the digital synths came, many keyboardists ditched the analog, tossed them in the dumpster, sold them off, etc.. Because they fell out of tune, they requires too much time to configure, why mess with a 2600 when you could change tones instantly.. Now we can get those analogs back, but with the aid of micro-integration and oscillators that don't fall out of tune, beit digital simulation or what, we can access all kinds of synthesis.. Keep in mind graphics cards do way more operations per second than any sound hardware, all you need to do is play a video game to realize synthesis can never be as dynamic and complex.. The reason music devices are so oldschool is the musicians just really do not know what is possible.. Complexity begets ruin, simplicity expedites expression. This is why the tablets are nice, is there is a potential to remove the complexity and substitute it with an easier interface. Now there are two technologies I don't see being used in synthesis that will have a dramatic effect: AR and AI. Look into getting a Quest 3, use the color passthru.. Now imagine with some of the music apps it has, that being a potential MIDI controller.. Imagine using the cameras on the headset to read QR codes on the devices to auto configure the midi channels and such.. Imagine hardware synths being connected using the AR interface.. Imagine the VR headset one day offer IR vision so you can better navigate the Nightclub to get your equipment together without squinting. To identify where your equipment is situated in 3D.. Apple Vision and Quest 3, already does this kind of thing , just nobody has pushed it into the physical space.
Comment 2, I use Reason for over 17 years and over the last few years collected some hardware gear 3 sythersizors, 3 effects pedals, a looper and a Mixer. It's been over a year and I haven't managed to set it all up infact two of the sythersizors have been boxed unused for 6 months now. My homes to small to set it up.
The biggest downside to doing software only is tone chasing. You hear some crazy new sound by an artist who has a room full of esoteric gear and want to figure out how they did it.. you might get kinda close with apps but it'll never be THE sound. So much of the industry relies on physical gear that soft synth folks need to learn to live with doing their own thing.
I actually only recently discovered that iPads are more than stupid overpriced oversized cellphones that can't make calls. I stumbled across Audiokit Synth One on an old iPad air 1 I had laying around, and been working through the maze since... Currently playing with Korg's iWavestation
I worked in the box for about 16 years. Had a little shared hardware-studio with friends, before that. After all this years, I want to go back to hardware. Why? Because for me, only working ITB with software is like cybersex. It can be satisfying and exciting for a while, but after I while I crave the real-thing.
LOL, Dude is all fingered up. I can't justify the upgrade premium to jump to ios from the android stuff I have, just to make music. I have a windas laptop, and some free software. Good enough. When I want an instrument that will last longer than a small handful of years (what is expected lifespan of a phone or tablet?), I get hardware. I agree with the tactile aspect being big. About half the fun I have is with actually patching. A good couple hours in the evening spent plugging in cables, and tweaking bits and bobs to discover new sounds is super enjoyable to me.
Some iPad apps crash a lot….some eat up battery a lot….iPads generally start malfunctioning after three years…the touch ability messes up. But I’m too lazy to fiddle about with stupid amount of leads. So I just use ipad
People should really stop the ''this sounds better''. The 3 main thing I use for the album i'm working on are an old busted up Roland D-10, a MikroFreak and Ableton's operator. I have analog synths too and some really good vst, but for what I'm doing at the moment those 3 have the CHARACTER (lofi; weird and metalic; FM/blank canvas) i'm looking for. Having the warmth of analog or the stable coldness of wavetables just wouldn't work for THIS project and THIS sound. Everything sounds ''good'' if you use their character in the right context and don't try to morph it into something it just isn't. Play to the strenght of what you have and only buy gear that really have a place in your current sound. Don't think ''this sounds good so i'll be better'', think ''this is what is missing currently in my workflow/sound''.
I have to agree both are good but both have their flaws, Software is flexible and portable and fast and cheaper compared to hardware but it can become unusable If the developer abandons the software or with an OS change or hardware upgrade ect also i find myself constantly updating the different software suites which can be a pain, where as hardware is more expensive but you get the ability to just switch on and play, the downside is they are often not as portable and generally you end up dropping loads of cash as one synth won’t do everything and before you know it you have many of them. I personally don’t have an issue with buying loads of synths but apparently my wife does 😂
Hi there. I have a quetion. Is there a way to use blue mangoo multiband compressor to sidechain drums n a bass in loopy pro,if yes then how to do it? Cheers
It's true, how awesome it is to take a few midi controllers, my two afpads and an adapter, go to nature or an abandoned house to make music. Carrying iron pedals and synthesizers with you is unbearable.
How many apps # have you paid for but weren’t updated when iOS went to a new version so they don’t work anymore ? # changed from pay once to a subscription model? # are chained to an internet account? I just don’t like my purchases taken away or reduced after I’ve bought them. That doesn’t happen with hardware (but the industry is working hard to change this, ask Louis Rossmann the right to repair guy.) This is no digital/analog/software issue.
Ps # how many apps are still IAA (I’m looking at you, Korg) although AUv3 is standard. # sometimes certain features get killed by Apple. (Jack Audio connection kit) and I fear Audiobus will get killed when Apple thinks the time is right. You may add other problems, dear reader.
Relatively few, and I would bet that the aggregate cost of all of them is lower than the average cheap hardware synth. Heck, I bet the aggregate cost is lower than the cheapest repair bill anyone has had for a hardware synth that was out of warranty.
for me, I like to stick to apps that are designed specifically for touch and the phone/tablet itself. If its an emulation of a hardware device, I tend to stay away from that and focus more on the innovative tablet/phone applications. Keep that hardware designs and innovations for hardware best.
I can see that argument. I have a lot of apps, many of which I just don't feel very inspired by. I have three or four MIDI controllers which are a bit outdated, too. But, I am anxiously awaiting a Yamaha Reface CP because I want a playable emulation of the best electric pianos ever made. Sure, I have plenty of e-pianos in my apps, but it's just not the same.
Please make more anti GAS videos. RUclips, as a whole, will do anything to avoid showing people that an iPad can do 90+% of everything & better than hardware. So many of the Channels exist to/ or because they are trying to make expensive hardware look cool/sell it. It’s not that hardware is “bad,” it’s that you are uniquely positioned to show people how to do things for less/often better. Your point of Midi Mapping is true but in many cases midi learn/mapping is quick.
Not really, the percentage of I pad music makers is small and the percentage of people using any one particular I pad DAW is even smaller. I'm a Reason DAW user and regularly only rates at 3% of all DAW users, Reaper 6% FL studio 11%, so the percentage for I pad DAW users is probably 0.05. That's why you dont see much content on RUclips about it.
@@HOLLASOUNDS Agreed, but my point is that all the tech websites use algorithms that privilege selling things over cheaper alternatives. Many/most of the large music tech related channels are propped up by companies that use the channels to sell things.
@@everybodyhasoul5438 Well what do expect a brand not to try to sell there own products over other brands? Where there is money to be made there will be competition and people trying to get money out of people, Music production, Cars, Motrbikes, Hotels, Sofa, furniture, food, brick toys like Lego and clone brands, it's all the same game.
"I'm recording this directly into my iPad with AUM'. Via what interface? This is the missing link for me. Loads of cool Apps. Don't know how to integrate my iPad with everything else. What interface do you use to connect iPad to DAW on computer?
I have several interfaces for different purposes. When I’m in my studio I use a Steinberg UR816C with my iDevices. It’s connected to the iPad with a usb-c hub. However when I’m out and about (travelling) I use smaller interfaces. One is a Roland GO: Mixer Pro-X, the other an iRig stream pro. I’ve also started using the TX-6 from teenage engineering. . However I’m not integrating my setup with computer because I don’t use desktop and laptop systems for 10 years. I have an old MacBook from 2013 and a Pc from 2011 but I don’t use them for creative stuff. I am iOS based and have been all these years. . If I was using Laptop/Desktop stuff and wanted to integrate my iPad into a setup like that. I would personally use two AUDIO/MIDI interfaces, one for iPad, one for computer and just connect those 1 to 1, audio and midi. . It’s supposed to be possible to connect a iPad to laptop and desktop systems directly over USB. However all the ways I’ve tested are buggy, unstable and in many cases cumbersome and contrived to setup. This could be because my desktop/laptop systems are old. However, I get reports from users using newer systems telling me they have the same issues. This is why I’d rather just 1 to 1 two interfaces instead.
Nobody has used AI to simplify this process in realtime, and it could be done, just its too early for that.. I¡m one of the few who look forward to GOOD uses for AI.. I don't see people substituting friends with brain dead software any time soon. But I do use AI chatbots for advice. The cost to run an AI locally for that stuff is costly, but AI to help with automation and configuration of setups, could be a reality.. Thats where AI software could be useful is in speeding up the process of automation, even creating a brand of synthesis that models sound and morphs into something nobody has heard before.. Its better to focus on what you can do with AI to augment your art than to worry about AI replacing you, cause AI cannot know what youd do, it can adapt and learn something about your style, but its an exchange, if you have a style, it will evolve if you can identify your boundaries..
I am over the daw vs dawless argument. to your point, when you get into beef with others online, what comes of that? I mean, unless you are pounding your chest and sampling that and dropping a banger, ok. Seven life hacks: 1. What is your objective? 2. Find the tools that help you meet that objective. 3. the gap between analog and digital is closing if not closed. only anal audiophiles argue over that. 4. arguing creates what kind of music? noise. 5. hybrid is the way. a little bit of hard and soft serve toys. 6. it's never about the gear, it's what you hear. 7. eat more potatoes.
Most people who say there DAWLESS are actually not Dawless because they are using a MPC or other device with a screan and software which is a DAW with the same functions. Even if it's just a little black and white screan but has the ability to stop, start, record, dub, edit audio or midi, with a sequencer, has the ability to mix and layer elements then it's a DAW.
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I bought a moog studio 3 and have 0 regrets. Used my iPad for music for years but nothing can replace these moog knobs and switches.
Like you say, we can love multiple things.
Great video.
With hardware you own something tangible, if you are software based you are only licensed to use the software as long as the publisher allows which is subject to change. 30 years from now you can still have the gear and it will be classic and worth much more potentially. Show me a 30 year app that has full functionality ...
I have acquired a handful of small hardware devices and a couple of midi controllers but for the last 3 years I have almost entirely used the iPad completely on its own. That may change as I’m not ideologically committed to that…it just seems to work for me.
I’m now over 8 years as an iPad based musician 😊
I found out 5 years back that hardware has become affordable. I've loved electronic music since the 80's as a teenager. I never even bothered to try and get hardware as it was obviously out of reach due to price. It's taken me 5 years but now have a decent little set up. Friends told me to not Bother and get software . I get there point after using Logic Pro X and the Moog Synth apps given away for free during lockdown . But just like an acoustic instrument it's somehow more fun . I find myself losing whole days to working on the drums. I think hardware is easier to get obsessed with and put the time in to get the best out of the instrument . But I have just bought the Moog Mariana for £29.99. in contrast I waited for a year for a used Microfreak then a few months later the Minifreak came out. Great video and definitely subscribing .
Congratulations for the 9 years Jakob
Keep going, you’re awesome
i’m with you here absolutely … exactly my experience .. i started using ipad only for making music deep in 2010 (with first release og nanostudio 1) and even through recent two years i’m using mostly elektron gear, iOS will always stay in my heart and NS2 is still my weapon of choice for full blown ITB production..
I would say - just combine everything what inspires you, no matter what other people say ;)
Knob twisting and touch screen interfaces both have their place. I think that the secret is to find the points where they meet.
850 videos....wow! Keep them coming Jakob.
I bought the Moog Sound Studio 3 partly after seeing your video where the guy from Moog tries to persuade you about patch cables! It’s great, and I have it set up as a nice hybrid system with the iPad, sometimes using MiRack to send a couple of channels of CV out to the Moogs for modulation or whatever. I like the Moogs for the same reason you give in this video: the tactile nature of the knobs, switches and patch cabling. It’s not one or the other, both together is wonderful!
Excellent vi and many thanks Haq! There’s one more thing I like about a hardware synth… it’s limited. The synth is dedicated to doing its thing and while it reins you in a bit, that can be very good for your creative process. I open my iPad and I have tens of thousands of sounds available. It’s like going to a great diner where the menu has everything! When I sit down with my Minilogue, I know what I can and can’t do and sometimes that limitation leads to very good results.
It’s a subject that I’d love to see you address again. …and speaking of ‘again’, many thanks!
I like both. Knob twiddler from way back.
Excellent explanation of the endless modulation between iOS and hardware synths/Boxes … touchscreen vs actual sliders/knobs
I have so many synths and fx on my iPad I have lost track… I bought a moog grandmother couple of years ago and honestly it’s something I use on almost every track, what’s also interesting is that it’s relatively straightforward but I can pull new and different sounds out of it all the time. I think it’s dangerous to get too many of any instruments real or virtual as you end up wasting money and don’t ever get good at one thing.
I like hardware because I love getting lost in a single purpose experience with knobs, same as Jakob. That being said, I tend to buy hardware that has high level of programmability, so that the singe purpose experience is actually quite deep, which actually undermines the previous reason. I don’t know why, can’t help it, but I am just only attracted to hardware when it has sufficiently deep programming options. My most favorite box is the Deluge which is basically a hardware DAW the size of an iPad.
Been a fan since the beginning for the same reason. To learn, love, and laugh. I accidentally stumbled upon your channel researching iOS music apps almost a decade ago and I dug the style in which you delivered information and usually agree with you. You helped me not be so much of a dick with my internet presence and my ratings. I have learned so much about music production, synths, apps, Apple, developers, etc. keep up the great hilarious content coming.
Oh it is kind of a bummer that your English has gotten way way better. Your broken English videos were some of my favorites!?!
I have owned dozens of analog and digital synths and dozens of drum machines and samplers over the years. I loved them all! And I sold them all.
I now only use my iPads and my desktop computer for all those tasks. I’m getting tons of work done because now I have less distractions with all that equipment.
Great analysis as always! I kind of gave up on programming cc-messages because I always forget which knob does what. But thanks to you I’ve gotten a lot of use of my iPad as well with coming up whith ideas and even whole songs.
British Hippie in the back still giggling here because the Swedish Sausage said "knob." 😂 I just love making music. I don't care what with - it's just whatever inspires you at the time. For me, I'm a small person with a small space to make music in and I'm interested in small things that make big sounds. I'm keen to try small synths, pedals, controllers, drum machines - whatever I can use alongside the iPad and my desktop - it's all the same to me, knobby or knobless.
I have a gear setup and an in-the-box setup, and I use them for completely different things. The latter is where I produce all my songs, while the former is for inspiration. I love buttons and knobs, but I hate recording audio from hardware! It’s fun and inspiring to play with hardware synths, but when it comes to making a track, I just have to have the control and flexibility of being all in the box.
Of course, I recognize that’s just me… I know some people are the exact opposite, and if you enjoy making music that way, that’s great!
I mostly feel the same. I’m thinking of getting back into the korg volcas again bc they sink so easily which makes it super fun for jamming. And the parameter locks make knob twisting fun.
I must say, your videos and style of it are so great and fun. Your humor makes me smile so many time . I am not smiling much in my life but mostly your videos even get me out of thoughts holes :) Thank you for all your very informative and usefull videos. I agree with you.. The mix of all (Hardware and Software) in this case even with more devises is making it flexible and great. Keep on going "yeah good finger good. ahahah. " :D
Fascinating topic. I first got into iOS music production out of necessity because I had very little spare time or space to devote to setting up or housing physical gear. It was life changing for me to be able to make music while commuting to work. But over time, it is true that the desire to break ‘out of the box’ I’d so happily placed my music into began to bother me. I realised that I wasn’t really a guy having fun playing instruments to record music, I was a guy editing midi to build something that sounded like a performance - and that is something altogether different.
You are so entertaining to watch and listen to. Your wit and humor is poetic, it all flows so well. This was well done! Good stuff 😂
Thank you so very much! 🥰
Two reasons, one of which you raised early on- it’s just so much better playing with real knobs and buttons and sliders. The other is one I seldom see mentioned, but which I notice every time I try returning to iOS- soft synths are just so damned complicated. There are one or two iOS synths that present the entire control interface at a glance, but most have multiple interfaces with a lot of menu-diving and really complex control routing. I have several hundred hp of modular now, and everything I do with that is far far simpler (and quicker!) than trying to tease a specific tone out of SynthMaster, or WoodSynth, or BLEASS Alpha, etc etc.
In three words- Hardware Is Easier!
Do you love playing with a real knob? As a proper synth player, I prefer turning Pots.
what soft synths is an exception in your opinion?
Really great video Jakob! Fully agree with this. I also really love 1:1 hardware and software experiences, there’s a lot of premapped options on mac and pc like keylab and komplete kontrol, but on iPad it feels like it’s just nanokey for gadget
For now I'm content with my MIDI Controller and soft synths but I've had my eye on that boutique Juno and a DX7 for a while.
Great video. I take advantage of the software synths but I do have 2 hardware, one analogue, one digital. The analogue machine I really enjoy the knob-per-function simplicity, but with the downside of each patch being for one instance only (short of taking photos of the positions etc). The digital synth only the other hand has had me baffled for about 40 years now, partly due to the menu diving, and partly because I still can't comprehend phase distortion in any meaningful way🤣. But as someone more into music writing than patch creation having software synths with infinite memory slots means I can focus on what I want to do rather than get bogged down in the stuff I'm less interested in.
Great points. I've gotten to the point of using a hardware keyboard (Yamaha MX88) and the software in the box (usually in Logic). I also have a KeyLab keyboard controller, and it is already mapped to their software, which is a big plus... but it's still not the same as knob turning on an actual analog synth. That said, I don't care if a synth is analog or digital. I prefer digital for the convenience of easy patch memory.
Great vid as always Jakob. Brit at the back laughing 🫢
understand you, be with you
The iPad Pro M4 is just a fallback device for me when I travel for business. MPCs and hardware is what I primarily use because the journey is part of the joy of making music. That journey is less captivating on an iPad.
It’s not about what others outside yourself feels. It’s about what you think and what you can do with the tools you choose.
I love concept of Volca Modular (two of them) talking with Moog WERKSTATT and electronic components thru breadboard in between. There are also instruments like model:Cycles that have unique workflow with all those knobs n buttons... not so easy with soft synths vs midi controllers. But, after all, I am probably just love how it look on my desk :)
For me I am a spacey ambient head. I want both Keys and knobs, but I also want those lush pads, arps and sequences. I could sequence everything in a Daw or a tracker over midi or I could go all hands on with the sequencer parts in both the soft synths and the hard synths and record that live, for me it is the choice of variation and sound, one doesn’t exclude the other and I really don’t dig that analog vs digital vs VA vs VST/synth app discussion. If it sounds great and you can be creative it really doesn’t matter the source, could be an old 8-bit computer with midi and a sampler as long as you are productive.
Just sold off my Volcas and I'm all software and midi controllers right now, but I sure feel this. At some point I'll probably decide to make room for some hardware again.
I used to do everything in the box, then several of the things I was using were no longer supported, or I had to buy (seemed more like rent) a new license. My operating system stopped supporting what I was using. On top of all that, mapping sucked! I switched to hardware. I have more fun now. As for the sound, agree 💯 with you. Analog, digital, or VST modeling, I do not care what you use. If it sounds good to you, then use it. If the iPad stuff gets easier to implement, I would do a hybrid setup in a second. Thinking of trying with my old Mac mini, and getting like a 10" monitor, a track ball and one of those mini thumb apha numeric Bluetooth things.
What is important to me is to take music making out of the studio.
That is why i love ios music.
“Just stop it! Get some help. “ 🤣 🎉
Thanks Jakob! Good exposé! :)
I like to use the iPad for fiddling around with sounds and music. Many apps sound really really good. And I cannot afford any HW synths. But maybe that will change at some point, who knows.
But yes, on the other hand, I really really crave to use a HW synth or a few more. For all the reasons you said (physical knobs and keyboards, dedicated HW, different sound). But also because I believe the “lucky accidents” and artifacts are different, and I want to use them. Artifacts are a big part of my creative process … and sometimes they sound really really good, especially on analog stuff (because the harmonics of analog artifacts tend to be “musical”).
One more thing: my old iPad kept forgetting its AUv3 database regularly, ever since iOS 14, I believe. You heard about the problem. This prevented me from making music for a very long time, until I got a new iPad recently. This can of course also happen with HW synths. But I believe that I would have a bit more control over fixing or continuing to use partially broken HW.
On the other hand, my other dream is that a good combination of an open source system with an app store will still become available some day on a tablet device. I have reason to believe that this is possible, albeit difficult to take all the steps to get there. The promise of such a system is that people can fix their own stuff again, at least the system parts.
Congrats on 9 years 🎉
I have dozens of iPad synths, effects, and other music creation apps. I also have 5 physical synths, a drum machine, and a sizable modular rig. The physical tends to get more use just because of the immediacy. I do use AUM and iPad for ALL effects. On my analog mixer I have 4 mono sends to a focusrite interface plugged into the iPad. AUM then provides 4 channels of effect chains back to 2 stereo returns to the mixer.
Both have their place different workflows add creativity I love what I can do with Ipad fed into my Roland Sp Mk 2 then feed the sound into my mutator filter and it becomes part of my external rig
Best of both worlds
Completely agree. I love my modular, but the best synthesizer I have ever bought is my ipad. Everything is good anymore.
Excellent vid… good question!!
I used to own rooms full of hardware… I got sick of it and money is an issue … and space… I wouldn’t bother with electronics at all these days except for the iPad bought me back … I play acoustic/electric guitars normally
I love my iPad and will never let go of it. I do basically all my production within it and probably will continue to do so. But I’m working towards my dream setup now which is an iPad+OP-1 and an 0coast/Strega combo. Mostly just for jamming and fun but I’m sure they’ll both make their way into some tracks.
Both is best.
in the not too distant future, the surface of the ipad will extrude between your fingers creating 3d buttons, sliders and knobs that will be electromagnetically modulated to your touch. in this way the tactile sensation will be rendered 100% with the benefit of a single device equipped with a surface film that continuously modulates its shape in 3 dimensions between your fingers.
I’m all iOS these days after having all hardware but recently I got a lofi 12 love the sound, a volca sample 2 love the sound, a pocket operator ko 33 but they all small and portable. I just think some lofi sounds good in hardware, and the tactile feel is nice sometimes also the limitations. cause with iOS I have so many apps now, to many options not a bad thing . but I like the hardware limitations sometimes.
You're absolutely right ✌🏼
sounds great
I like the knob per function of hardware. But I also like having control 100% of the creative process.
As Kraftwerk says, It’s more fun to compute!
People who have money either want to show that they have it, or just feel like they have it. It becomes less about how it actually sounds. And once they spend that money, you can guarantee they are going to take the opinion that the gear they bought makes sounds that can't be reproduced by something cheap. It's not a greed thing or an ego thing necessarily. People lose track and it becomes more about the tool than the work to be done.
to any new or old musician: just test, select and then use whatever suits you! hardware.. software.. that is not important. the most important is to use what will give you the opportunity to make music you love ❤
I actually like also dedicated midi controllers . Eg from Soundforce I have a midi minimoog a sfc60 Juno and from Korg the midi ms20.... It a nice compromise I think
The dedicated midi controllers look great but I can't bring myself to spend $300+ USD for each one (sometimes I am too cheap). I really like the Novation LaunchControl XL. I connect it to my iPad via bluetooth using the CME WIDI UHost. I ordered a pack of custom overlays that I use for different soft synths. It definitely takes some time to think about how to arrange, group, and assign the knobs, buttons, and faders, but I find that the process helps me to understand the capabilities of the soft synth too.
@@jamietopolski4019 you are right and it is luxury. I got them all on eBay
Great video.
So of the things u said had me laughing.lyk ur sense of humour
Keep up the great content 👍
Jakob Haq thanks always bro i feel the same just create some good musik peace !!!!
I’ve owned and still own several analog synths and use my iPad more than any of them combined
I think it depends on several things.
The music you make. Who you make it for. And the confidence you have in yourself.
I was lucky enough to get a recording studio built at a very young age by Sony. Then, as I was always on tour, I made it profitable by running it like a pro studio. It was necessary to answer the demand of the prods. 20 years later I had 35 guitars, more than 20 Synths (all vintage), 2 acoustic pianos, 3 electric pianos, more than 200 effect racks... A pro studio...
At home I just had a digital Mackie and a Protools.
I was going to the studio only for soccer games and weekends with friends.
When the iPad came out, it was great.
I could compose on tour,...
When the 2nd one came out, I had my head full of producing bands so I sold everything.
5 iPads and that's it.
Today 2 and that's it. Not even a headphone. The iPad is my Auratone.
I like to destroy sounds...that's all I spend my time on
The only instruments I don't destroy are the classical ones and for them I don't need Synthetizers. Just a big sound bank.
Why did I talk about self-confidence?
I often mix with Japanese DJs.
They come with a lot of gear and I just have my iPad.
Before playing, they usually don't talk to me...
What's this crap...
You have to assume.
Well, in 100% of the cases, they ask me to do selfies with them after the show...
It amuses me, but I'm 54 years old, I have no desire to be part of the music business and I'm lucky to have reached the dreams of my youth.
My dream is the same little wooden house I have in Bangkok, but on an island. 2 big screen iPads, 2 genelec and a master keyboard. Nothing more, except some guitars...
Because a guitar is not the same as a Synth....
What
@@theorize999
What what?
Maybe consider a drum kit for the neighborhood kids to jam with yah?
@@CatFish107
I love to play drum but unfortunately I live in a slum with home in wood, so, even if all my neighbors...
There is place close to where I live where I can play drum when I want...
But yes, If one day I have my home in wood in an island, on a beach, a drum would be awesome...
But you know, I totally change my way of living..
I have no more dream, I live the instant and never want something...
I have 2 t shirts, 1 pant, my 2 iPads, my guitar and that's all.
I am an empty boat that means that when you have nothing, nobody can "catch" you".
This is how I am finally found the way of the happiness.
To live I beef $70 per month.
When I have more I share it with the Tha I people of my soi and all the children.
🙏
Jakob, do you have any Public playlists you could share? I’m intrigued to “discover” your listening tastes!
Aw, no I don’t. I usually listen to music on either physical mediums or use services where I can buy music directly from artists and download into my own apps. I don’t use Spotify, Apple Music or anything like that. 😅
Ahahah is that the goose from the untitled goose game?
absolutely NOTHING nothing can replace knobs and switches... with a touch display you always have to look what your finger hits... and: you don't feel anything. All this inhibits making music...
I have a Micro freak, but bought the Minifreak V (bundled with the whole V Collection). I have a few hardware devices because I like the way they look. The Microfreak is like beautiful art.
Of course the worst part is having to explain yourself over and over. I use hardware but only to control the apps on my iPad. It is so much easier to grab a physical knob or slider than hope to hit the right place on my screen. At least for my big fat bass player fingers. But,…..if a dedicated iPad user wanted to try out a hardware synth, do you have any recommendations on a reasonably cheap starter synth. Asking for a friend of course.
I got into hardware with a Deepmind 12 and it’s a great midi controller for IOS and PC VST’S as well and using both is “great sounding”to me but I think getting too many items or products distracts too much time away from concentration on one item or setup
You’ll remember Jakob… back in the day…😊
Back in the day - oh let’s say a scary sounding 23 years ago - anyone starting out had roughly ZERO chance of owning a great analog synth. But, we had Rebirth and VAZ and maybe some uhhhh virtual analog synths. Made a great many songs on these setups and laughed at those old fogies and their “real” gear.
Well, let me tell you. I woke up sometime this year and realized actual affordable analog synths had fallen from the sky. I bought about three of them (exactly three of them) and… it’s amazing. I’m amazed. Everything I do on them just sounds so big and nice. To me the sonic differences are pretty big. I’m in love. I’ve married my synths and planned my future accordingly. Sorry not sorry.
Here’s why i mostly buy hardware - i have a bass from 1994 that still works, how much software did you get in 1994 that still works? Also, having physical controls right in front of you for a real synth makes workflow really fast imho
Turning a knob and feeling the control could be more gratifying than using the touch screen
Midi controllers can never do justice to depict knobs on the soft synth.
But then it’s one’s priority.
The iPad does an amazing job to recreate synths today
Then again the feel of an actual synth with real control is truly amazing too
This debate may never end
So enjoy with what you have 😂😂
Well I think most of the people pursuing analog synths from long ago, need to understand that when the digital synths came, many keyboardists ditched the analog, tossed them in the dumpster, sold them off, etc.. Because they fell out of tune, they requires too much time to configure, why mess with a 2600 when you could change tones instantly.. Now we can get those analogs back, but with the aid of micro-integration and oscillators that don't fall out of tune, beit digital simulation or what, we can access all kinds of synthesis.. Keep in mind graphics cards do way more operations per second than any sound hardware, all you need to do is play a video game to realize synthesis can never be as dynamic and complex.. The reason music devices are so oldschool is the musicians just really do not know what is possible.. Complexity begets ruin, simplicity expedites expression. This is why the tablets are nice, is there is a potential to remove the complexity and substitute it with an easier interface. Now there are two technologies I don't see being used in synthesis that will have a dramatic effect: AR and AI. Look into getting a Quest 3, use the color passthru.. Now imagine with some of the music apps it has, that being a potential MIDI controller.. Imagine using the cameras on the headset to read QR codes on the devices to auto configure the midi channels and such.. Imagine hardware synths being connected using the AR interface.. Imagine the VR headset one day offer IR vision so you can better navigate the Nightclub to get your equipment together without squinting. To identify where your equipment is situated in 3D.. Apple Vision and Quest 3, already does this kind of thing , just nobody has pushed it into the physical space.
I’m like you, I use whatever is fun, HW, SW, DAW, tracker, it doesn’t matter…. Hell I still have orangator on my desktop and use it more than bitwig.
Comment 2, I use Reason for over 17 years and over the last few years collected some hardware gear 3 sythersizors, 3 effects pedals, a looper and a Mixer. It's been over a year and I haven't managed to set it all up infact two of the sythersizors have been boxed unused for 6 months now. My homes to small to set it up.
The biggest downside to doing software only is tone chasing. You hear some crazy new sound by an artist who has a room full of esoteric gear and want to figure out how they did it.. you might get kinda close with apps but it'll never be THE sound. So much of the industry relies on physical gear that soft synth folks need to learn to live with doing their own thing.
Which do you choose, the hard or soft option
Nice PSB reference
.. girls! 😊
I actually only recently discovered that iPads are more than stupid overpriced oversized cellphones that can't make calls. I stumbled across Audiokit Synth One on an old iPad air 1 I had laying around, and been working through the maze since... Currently playing with Korg's iWavestation
😂😂😂😂 great video!
I worked in the box for about 16 years. Had a little shared hardware-studio with friends, before that. After all this years, I want to go back to hardware. Why? Because for me, only working ITB with software is like cybersex. It can be satisfying and exciting for a while, but after I while I crave the real-thing.
You don't need a 7:20 video for saying 'knobs vs non-knobs'........but I like your videos ;)
LOL, Dude is all fingered up. I can't justify the upgrade premium to jump to ios from the android stuff I have, just to make music. I have a windas laptop, and some free software. Good enough. When I want an instrument that will last longer than a small handful of years (what is expected lifespan of a phone or tablet?), I get hardware. I agree with the tactile aspect being big. About half the fun I have is with actually patching. A good couple hours in the evening spent plugging in cables, and tweaking bits and bobs to discover new sounds is super enjoyable to me.
Some iPad apps crash a lot….some eat up battery a lot….iPads generally start malfunctioning after three years…the touch ability messes up. But I’m too lazy to fiddle about with stupid amount of leads. So I just use ipad
I have a 12.9 ipad pro from 2015 and it never slowed down or touch ability mess up lol iPads last forever
It’s just more fun with physical gear, simple as that
People should really stop the ''this sounds better''. The 3 main thing I use for the album i'm working on are an old busted up Roland D-10, a MikroFreak and Ableton's operator. I have analog synths too and some really good vst, but for what I'm doing at the moment those 3 have the CHARACTER (lofi; weird and metalic; FM/blank canvas) i'm looking for. Having the warmth of analog or the stable coldness of wavetables just wouldn't work for THIS project and THIS sound.
Everything sounds ''good'' if you use their character in the right context and don't try to morph it into something it just isn't.
Play to the strenght of what you have and only buy gear that really have a place in your current sound. Don't think ''this sounds good so i'll be better'', think ''this is what is missing currently in my workflow/sound''.
I have to agree both are good but both have their flaws, Software is flexible and portable and fast and cheaper compared to hardware but it can become unusable If the developer abandons the software or with an OS change or hardware upgrade ect also i find myself constantly updating the different software suites which can be a pain, where as hardware is more expensive but you get the ability to just switch on and play, the downside is they are often not as portable and generally you end up dropping loads of cash as one synth won’t do everything and before you know it you have many of them. I personally don’t have an issue with buying loads of synths but apparently my wife does 😂
Hi there. I have a quetion. Is there a way to use blue mangoo multiband compressor to sidechain drums n a bass in loopy pro,if yes then how to do it? Cheers
We are spoiled with the options we can use today wether you’re rich or not. It’s a level playing field that’s a great thing.
It's true, how awesome it is to take a few midi controllers, my two afpads and an adapter, go to nature or an abandoned house to make music.
Carrying iron pedals and synthesizers with you is unbearable.
Hey Jakob, great video as always! What app is that at 4:39 (with all of the geometric shapes and stuff)??
I believe that is KRFT, but it appears to have died off. It still seems to work on my iPad, but it's not on the app store anymore.
@@mattsmusiclab6887 Thanks! Seems you’re correct. I hate it when apps die. (Happy to still have Thor working on my ipad!)
What is the keyboard at 4:57?
How many apps
# have you paid for but weren’t updated when iOS went to a new version so they don’t work anymore ?
# changed from pay once to a subscription model?
# are chained to an internet account?
I just don’t like my purchases taken away or reduced after I’ve bought them. That doesn’t happen with hardware (but the industry is working hard to change this, ask Louis Rossmann the right to repair guy.)
This is no digital/analog/software issue.
Ps
# how many apps are still IAA (I’m looking at you, Korg) although AUv3 is standard.
# sometimes certain features get killed by Apple. (Jack Audio connection kit) and I fear Audiobus will get killed when Apple thinks the time is right.
You may add other problems, dear reader.
Relatively few, and I would bet that the aggregate cost of all of them is lower than the average cheap hardware synth. Heck, I bet the aggregate cost is lower than the cheapest repair bill anyone has had for a hardware synth that was out of warranty.
for me, I like to stick to apps that are designed specifically for touch and the phone/tablet itself. If its an emulation of a hardware device, I tend to stay away from that and focus more on the innovative tablet/phone applications. Keep that hardware designs and innovations for hardware best.
BEcause the motivation from pulling / Pushing Kobs and more? Fun? Boring feelings ?
I can see that argument. I have a lot of apps, many of which I just don't feel very inspired by. I have three or four MIDI controllers which are a bit outdated, too. But, I am anxiously awaiting a Yamaha Reface CP because I want a playable emulation of the best electric pianos ever made. Sure, I have plenty of
e-pianos in my apps, but it's just not the same.
In My DAW Reason I can make custom face with knobs and slidders and buttons to replicate the midi controller if I want using any plugin inside it.
Please make more anti GAS videos. RUclips, as a whole, will do anything to avoid showing people that an iPad can do 90+% of everything & better than hardware. So many of the Channels exist to/ or because they are trying to make expensive hardware look cool/sell it.
It’s not that hardware is “bad,” it’s that you are uniquely positioned to show people how to do things for less/often better.
Your point of Midi Mapping is true but in many cases midi learn/mapping is quick.
Not really, the percentage of I pad music makers is small and the percentage of people using any one particular I pad DAW is even smaller. I'm a Reason DAW user and regularly only rates at 3% of all DAW users, Reaper 6% FL studio 11%, so the percentage for I pad DAW users is probably 0.05. That's why you dont see much content on RUclips about it.
@@HOLLASOUNDS Agreed, but my point is that all the tech websites use algorithms that privilege selling things over cheaper alternatives. Many/most of the large music tech related channels are propped up by companies that use the channels to sell things.
@@everybodyhasoul5438 Well what do expect a brand not to try to sell there own products over other brands? Where there is money to be made there will be competition and people trying to get money out of people, Music production, Cars, Motrbikes, Hotels, Sofa, furniture, food, brick toys like Lego and clone brands, it's all the same game.
"I'm recording this directly into my iPad with AUM'. Via what interface? This is the missing link for me. Loads of cool Apps. Don't know how to integrate my iPad with everything else. What interface do you use to connect iPad to DAW on computer?
I have several interfaces for different purposes. When I’m in my studio I use a Steinberg UR816C with my iDevices. It’s connected to the iPad with a usb-c hub. However when I’m out and about (travelling) I use smaller interfaces. One is a Roland GO: Mixer Pro-X, the other an iRig stream pro. I’ve also started using the TX-6 from teenage engineering.
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However I’m not integrating my setup with computer because I don’t use desktop and laptop systems for 10 years. I have an old MacBook from 2013 and a Pc from 2011 but I don’t use them for creative stuff. I am iOS based and have been all these years.
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If I was using Laptop/Desktop stuff and wanted to integrate my iPad into a setup like that. I would personally use two AUDIO/MIDI interfaces, one for iPad, one for computer and just connect those 1 to 1, audio and midi.
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It’s supposed to be possible to connect a iPad to laptop and desktop systems directly over USB. However all the ways I’ve tested are buggy, unstable and in many cases cumbersome and contrived to setup. This could be because my desktop/laptop systems are old. However, I get reports from users using newer systems telling me they have the same issues. This is why I’d rather just 1 to 1 two interfaces instead.
My girlriend says she prefers my hardware. Conversation over.
Until the day someone will release a reliable and fully featured hands-on controller for iPad… hardware will still be the best way to go.
Nobody has used AI to simplify this process in realtime, and it could be done, just its too early for that.. I¡m one of the few who look forward to GOOD uses for AI.. I don't see people substituting friends with brain dead software any time soon. But I do use AI chatbots for advice. The cost to run an AI locally for that stuff is costly, but AI to help with automation and configuration of setups, could be a reality.. Thats where AI software could be useful is in speeding up the process of automation, even creating a brand of synthesis that models sound and morphs into something nobody has heard before.. Its better to focus on what you can do with AI to augment your art than to worry about AI replacing you, cause AI cannot know what youd do, it can adapt and learn something about your style, but its an exchange, if you have a style, it will evolve if you can identify your boundaries..
Because I am richer than software peasants with there mock synths..... that's my own reason haha
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why buy hardware when i have iPad?
because i can sequence it from iPad!
Tis boredom lol
I am over the daw vs dawless argument. to your point, when you get into beef with others online, what comes of that? I mean, unless you are pounding your chest and sampling that and dropping a banger, ok.
Seven life hacks:
1. What is your objective?
2. Find the tools that help you meet that objective.
3. the gap between analog and digital is closing if not closed. only anal audiophiles argue over that.
4. arguing creates what kind of music? noise.
5. hybrid is the way. a little bit of hard and soft serve toys.
6. it's never about the gear, it's what you hear.
7. eat more potatoes.
Most people who say there DAWLESS are actually not Dawless because they are using a MPC or other device with a screan and software which is a DAW with the same functions. Even if it's just a little black and white screan but has the ability to stop, start, record, dub, edit audio or midi, with a sequencer, has the ability to mix and layer elements then it's a DAW.
Tackar-
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